"Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita," I find myself still asking some of the same questions I did when I was just a punk kid. The Big Things confuse me. Fortunately, though, many little things delight and amuse me, and some Big Things--my wife, our kids, our bird and bunny visitors, food, baseball--make me very, very happy. In my pilgrimage, I try to be guided by the wisdom of dear old Auntie Mame: "Life is a banquet!"
Sure post this just as I shut down to get some actual work done, at work, but I had to sign back in just for a second to say how human all these beautiful trees look especially the fourth one down as it looks like two people in deep sensual sexual throes of ecstasy....or maybe it's just me :) I love every single picture they make me want to go up place my hand on them and feel their strength.
I love trees, love particularly watching them wake up in the spring, they and the soil they are rooted in go from a slow grey to rich brown... they clearly delineate the cycles of life.
once during a tai chi exercise, we were asked to embrace, hug a tree to feel the chi in a tree. they really have a LOT of chi, trees do.
Pilgrim, as I looked at the pictures of the beautiful trees, I was reminded of the Ent, the fictional human caretakers of the great forests of Tolkin's Middle Earth who, after centuries of living and caring for the trees, began to take on the look of the trees themselves. What a peaceful and wonderful entry to start my day with....Thank you.
i'm actually somewhat obsessed with tree skins, so will be coming back again and again to ooh and aaah over these, some of which i think i could name. funny, i love your big maple but its skin is not on the top of my list. i'm partial to the shaggy ones, the dappled ones and the lumpy-bumpies. perfect post for my first day of not-summer over here on the west edge. mmmmmm.
AtHomePilgrim, that's a great looking variety of bark aka tree skin you've presented here! You have a few varieties of trees in your collection that I haven't seen in my area. Follow up post idea: just the names of the trees and no photos!
Well as soon as I saw the first few here, I thought OMG, Green will be having an - - - - - - over these. I see she hasn't visited yet but I know she will. These are gorgeous Pilgrim. Just so textured. The fourth or fifth down reminds me of elephant skin. Pardon my politeness in the first sentence. I just didn't want to embarrass ms. heron. ;)
Oh i feel so much more skinnier now that I have seen this. I like it and see somethings in the images as well. Thanks again for the lovely collection. Drop by and see the sunflowers too!
Stunning!! I share your fascination with trees and each one of these is absolutely incredible! I'm going back to take a 2nd (and 3rd and 4th. . .) look.
Oh oh. What delight this was! I wish I could just hang this parade of beauty on my eyelids for a few days. I especially love copper beeches. There is one zoftig dame I've been serially drawing for many years; a place is formed in the roots that makes a comfy sketching seat. Look at that rooty thing with half a trunk missing, growing huge anyway by the water's edge. They make one another look so good! Also that tropical looking thing–when the leaves drop, it creates the bark pattern. Big maple, nice. The woodpeckers let you alone? What an honor to get a tag mention. Thank you Pilgrim.
LL2: Nothing wrong with arboreal ecstasy. (Long's you down lose your grip and fall . . . ). They do have strong, don't they?
JALI: Gotta know when to keep your mouth shut, sabe?
Mark: Indeed: though they wouldn't be so near the water.
Monkey: You're pretty chi-ky yourself.
patricia, Pavanne: Glad you liked.
Torman: Loves me my Ents! Glad you found respite here.
toritto: See prior note.
Candace: You just like those shaggy ones 'cuz you're an unregenerate hippie. As for the lumpy-bumpies, well . . . can't explain it but that is the perfect description.
Sheila: Long's we listen.
Sarah, Jaime: Thanks!
designanator: Not smart enough to know all the names, hence I left them out.
scanner: They do, don't they, those beeches!
Abrawang: Think I won't fault her for that bit of playful dabbling.
Scarlett: Your circumspection is duly noted. I'm with you and scanner on the beeches too: among my favorite trees.
Algis: Glad you enjoyed a feeling of sveltittude. And the sunflowers were magnificent!
Karin: Come back any time!
ChiGuy: My words aren't too interesting these days . . .
greenie: Glad you enjoyed, sweetie, though I'm not sure about the eyeballs thing. There's a row of copper beeches on one lawn at Longwood. Just incredible. And I remember seeing some at Newport RI that were as large as (and much more impressive than) those blown-up houses!
the fifth one is so much like the way human skin crinkles that it plain amazes me and the one that looks like striated clay, makes you think it will bend to the touch of the hand I love trees, that is what "aches" the most come September, how beautiful trees can be in autumn
There's something very poignant about trees baring their souls especially when they shed their "skins". I know you and I share a love of trees and trunks, Pilgrim. A lovely post. ♥R
vanessa: Isn't it a remarkably human look? The one just above the hollowed out sycamore, too. Amazing. If we have any good color this year, I'll send some pix your way.
Mission: Glad to leave you smiling, my dear.
Fusun: Glad you came by to enjoy--I thought you would like these. Good to see you around!
Gorgeous! I think it's funny how such textures are beautiful on tree trunks and "ugly" on people's limbs -- and what a juxtaposition that would be. We don't think of ourselves as part of nature, I think.
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I love every single picture they make me want to go up place my hand on them and feel their strength.
once during a tai chi exercise, we were asked to embrace, hug a tree to feel the chi in a tree. they really have a LOT of chi, trees do.
:-) / R
4th. . .) look.
JALI: Gotta know when to keep your mouth shut, sabe?
Mark: Indeed: though they wouldn't be so near the water.
Monkey: You're pretty chi-ky yourself.
patricia, Pavanne: Glad you liked.
Torman: Loves me my Ents! Glad you found respite here.
toritto: See prior note.
Candace: You just like those shaggy ones 'cuz you're an unregenerate hippie. As for the lumpy-bumpies, well . . . can't explain it but that is the perfect description.
Sheila: Long's we listen.
Sarah, Jaime: Thanks!
designanator: Not smart enough to know all the names, hence I left them out.
scanner: They do, don't they, those beeches!
Abrawang: Think I won't fault her for that bit of playful dabbling.
Scarlett: Your circumspection is duly noted. I'm with you and scanner on the beeches too: among my favorite trees.
Algis: Glad you enjoyed a feeling of sveltittude. And the sunflowers were magnificent!
Karin: Come back any time!
ChiGuy: My words aren't too interesting these days . . .
greenie: Glad you enjoyed, sweetie, though I'm not sure about the eyeballs thing. There's a row of copper beeches on one lawn at Longwood. Just incredible. And I remember seeing some at Newport RI that were as large as (and much more impressive than) those blown-up houses!
and the one that looks like striated clay, makes you think it will bend to the touch of the hand
I love trees, that is what "aches" the most come September, how beautiful trees can be in autumn
I love these!!
Thanks for the good clear photos Pilgrim. They all bring big smiles...
All of them....
♥R
Mission: Glad to leave you smiling, my dear.
Fusun: Glad you came by to enjoy--I thought you would like these. Good to see you around!
Thanks for sharing your beautiful photos!